Twilight of the Sultanate c17.3

c17.3

Thus in spite of the scantiness of historical material on the social life of the country, a fairly good picture of it can be visualised from the sources which are available. Not only that: from the writings of Alberunī, Ibn Battūta and Bābur it is clearly seen that medieval Indian society was not static, as is commonly believed, but that its pattern was constantly changing with the passage of time although the changes were neither sudden nor glaringly perceptible. The picture of society depicted by fifteenth century travellers, in many ways, is quite different from the one delineated by Ibn Battūta, and Bābur's Hindustan had changed much since the days of the Moroccan traveller.